This title offers a comprehensive assessment of the nature of authoritarian regimes, their changing character, and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance. It is a fully revised 2nd edition of the leading text on the subject. It increases interest and student numbers given problems of democratization and 'democracy promotion'.Despite talk of the 'triumph of democracy', much of the world is still ruled by political or military dictatorships. Paul Brooker provides a comprehensive assessment of the nature of authoritarian regimes, their changing character in the 21st Century world and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character and performance.
- ISBN10 0230202748
- ISBN13 9780230202740
- Publish Date 15 January 2009 (first published 13 April 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 November 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English